What is Blue Ocean Strategy? Ten Key Points 

 

• BOS is the result of a decade-long study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years (1880-2000).
• BOS is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost.
• The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry, but to create new market space or a blue ocean, thereby making the competition irrelevant.
• While innovation has been seen as a random/experimental process where entrepreneurs and spin-offs are the primary drivers – as argued by Schumpeter and his followers – BOS offers systematic and reproducible methodologies and processes in pursuit of blue oceans by both new and existing firms.
• BOS frameworks and tools include: strategy canvas, value curve, four actions framework, six paths, buyer experience cycle, buyer utility map, and blue ocean idea index.
• These frameworks and tools are designed to be visual in order to not only effectively build the collective wisdom of the company but also allow for effective strategy execution through easy communication.
• BOS covers both strategy formulation and strategy execution.
• The three key conceptual building blocks of BOS are: value innovation, tipping point leadership, and fair process.
• While competitive strategy is a structuralist theory of strategy where structure shapes strategy, BOS is a reconstructionist theory of strategy where strategy shapes structure.
• As an integrated approach to strategy at the system level, BOS requires organizations to develop and align the three strategy propositions: value proposition, profit proposition and people proposition.
•  http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com
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  Ali Hamsa Minta Ketua-Ketua Setiausaha, Jabatan Turun Padang 
   
  KUALA LUMPUR: Ketua Setiausaha Negara (KSN) yang baru, Datuk Seri Dr Ali Hamsa meminta semua ketua setiausaha dan ketua jabatan supaya turun padang untuk melihat sendiri keadaan petugas masing-masing ke arah memberi perkhidmatan terbaik kepada rakyat.
  
  Beliau yang berjanji akan turut berbuat demikian, berkata langkah itu bertujuan menjaga kebajikan penjawat awam dalam melaksanakan tugas.
  
  "Kita perlu turun melihat sendiri keadaan sebenar. Ada kemungkinan jabatan tertentu ada (berlaku) kelewatan (dalam menyediakan perkhidmatan). Kita perlu lihat perkhidmatan kaunter (misalnya) dan kita (hanya) lihat dari depan, dan tidak tahu adakah mereka selesa, adakah sesiapa yang menjaga mereka.
  
  "Kita perlu jaga kebajikan petugas kita sendiri, perlu lihat kepuasan mereka untuk memberi perkhidmatan," katanya pada program Dialog Khas bersama KS Nterbitan RTM yang disiarkan secara langsung di TV1 malam Rabu.
  
  Pelantikan Ali, 57, berkuat kuasa pada 24 Jun lepas, dan beliau menggantikan Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan.
  
  Ali yang merupakan KSN ke-13, sebelum ini merupakan Ketua Pengarah Unit Kerjasama Awam Swasta, Jabatan Perdana Menteri. - BERNAMA
  
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